Reverend Samuel Brown Wiley
John Neagle
1847
Medium
Oil, pen, and ink on paper
Dimensions
14 1/4 x 9 in. (36.2 x 22.9 cm)
Classification
Drawing, miniature
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Maria DeWitt Jesup Fund, by exchange, 2007
Accession Number
2007.26
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
MenPortraits
About the Artist
John Neagle · 1796–1865
John Neagle (1796–1865) was a leading American portrait painter active in Philadelphia during the first half of the nineteenth century. Born in Boston on November 4, 1796, he spent most of his life in Philadelphia after early training there. His artistic education began with drawing lessons from Pietro Ancora, followed by an apprenticeship to coach and sign painter Thomas Wilson, who introduced hi...